Comverse Brings Second Life to iPhones

Comverse has been demoing a version of Second Life on the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress this week.Instead of trying to run the full app on the iPhone's hardware, Second Life is actually being run from a separate PC or server and streamed to the iPhone, which can then be used to send commands back down the line. Comverse is looking to use the same technology for other applications as well. “On IPTV you can actually do most of the things you can do on the PC because the screen is very large, and the remote has lots of keys, so you can jump, fly, write a message,” Daphna Steinmetz, head of Comverse Innovation Labs, told Reuters. “On the handset it’s a little more limited — it’s hard writing long sentences. It’s more just popping in, seeing who’s visiting your area.”